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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Subject: Re: Cleanicode
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.170252.2368@enea.se>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
- References: <C138zr.r3@poel.juice.or.jp> <ISHIKAWA.93Jan20182546@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:02:52 GMT
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- Chiaki Ishikawa (ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp) writes:
- >Why not unify Latin/Cyrillic/Greek 'A'? This simple question also is
- >the cause of uncomfortable feeling many Japanese programmers seem to
- >have (including myself).
-
- Were we to design a 16-bit character for this machine invented yesterday
- and which we tentively named "computer" I would be inclined to agree
- with you. Somehow I have this feeling that having the same character
- in two code points will at some time cost someone a lot of time and
- money. If he is lucky he will just spend a week trying to find out
- why he his program won't compile. If he is unlucky, he will draw the
- wrong conclusion of a silently failed search.
-
- But the situation at hand is different. We have compatibility issues
- which are very compelling, so the issue is moot.
-
- This also serves as a reply to Masataka Ohta (mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp):
- >>It must equalize all the umpteen instances, yes. And it better do if
- >>the user is not going to be violent when he is told "you got the wrong
- >>sort of 'W' here, please replace".
- >
- >What? How do you think about a system which distigushes 'A's in
- >Latin/Greek/Cyrillic and tells "you got the wrong sort of 'A' here,
- >please replace"?
- >
- >The system is just poorly desinged.
-
- Yes, however:
- 1) it's slightly easier to accept that the machine keep scripts apart
- than languages.
- 2) from my Western European horizon it is a much smaller problem, since
- most users won't be hit by the problem.
- --
- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
-